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There's a way yesterday's failed attempt to frame up Jack Smith for perjury could've been covered as part of the same story — the deadly serious abuse of the DOJ by Republicans to ruin the lives of who they perceive as political opponents — but instead it was like "EMBARRASSING WHOOPSIE"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it.

JP Cooley: Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack?
JP Cooley: Damn. Thank you for saving -- but we are good. Ask Harbach.
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 2h

I am so glad Emma Hayes came to the United States. This response is so on point. But, FFS, FIFA should schedule its tournaments only in mandated international break windows.

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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 5h

Five years ago in the middle of a reckoning over abuse and misconduct, the players of the NWSL were debating if they should save the league or burn it down. They picked both. On the last five years, free to read at @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

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Five years ago, the NWSL was in crisis. Thanks to its players, it’s flourishing (Gift Article)

Amidst a reckoning over sexual misconduct in the NWSL, players faced a difficult choice. The action and change they forced saved the league.

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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 2h

Shoutout to @meglinehan.com on marking 5 years since the NWSL coach misconduct story. Still a remarkable feat of reporting by her. Will never forget the long, intense process behind that piece and how it led to everything that has come after.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

"but you won't get enough Republicans to convict" So what. It's not like there's some other more effective option lying around you can do instead. And it's a total failure of imagination to think the only thing that matters is the final roll call.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

Not just impeachable. Impeachment, both pres. and agency heads, is the only option. It's impeachment or nothing. Courts won't stop it. Other tools are impotent. Put them on trial the only way you can. Even if you can't get 2/3, use process as punishment. Make it miserable and costly. It can be done.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9h

Schrodinger’s USAID. Simultaneously dismantled by the great Donald Trump in 2025, and currently conspiring with foreign and domestic enemies to destroy America.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

And/or, are stupid.

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 15h

Can you imagine a job where calling for the public executions of your enemies was perfectly fine to do? Is "GOP politician" the only one? www.jezebel.com/bo-french-te...

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Man, This Texas GOP Candidate Really Loves Demanding ‘Public Executions’ for His Enemies

Can you imagine a job where calling for the public executions of your enemies was perfectly fine to do? How about "GOP politician"?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Literally my first thought when I watched this exchange was “I mean someone is definitely gonna comb through the footage and find him at one of these games.” I figured it would take at least a day. It took mere hours.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20h

I’m the guy at NHL HQ who’s in charge of making sure all of our major events get overshadowed by things in other sports, they gave me a huge raise for putting the season opener at 5 pm on a weekday at the same time as Game 1 of the MLB playoffs

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John Hanley @johnjhanley.bsky.social · 14h

What it must be like to play to win, not hope you don’t fail.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 17h

And yet there are people who claim that the Republican Party really cares about women’s sports.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 20h

This is one of the most painful things you’ll ever see and you should absolutely see it

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bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eric Schmitt:

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18h

Picture of him with me would probably be worse for him tbh

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is he seriously saying that people who use SNAP cards don't know how to budget, because I've got some news for him about how SNAP works.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Simply repeating back what Republicans have said is a pretty good messaging strategy. They've provided a lot of ammo over the last 18 months.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The story of out-of-state consultants homogenizing Troy Jackson is more complicated, Bob Kuttner reports. It was Jackson's own close aide, BJ McCollister, who encouraged him to use Chuck Schumer's team, because McCollister's consulting firm stood to make a fortune from ad placement.

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Chuck Schumer Neuters Troy Jackson - The American Prospect

Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.

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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I dunno, in the last 25 years we've lived through 9/11, constant war, two stock market collapses, the Great Recession, and a pandemic that locked us all in our houses for months. And you can blame a great deal of it on Republicans being careless morons. I think I'm all tough-timed out.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

this really picks up at the 26 second mark

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sorry, a men's basketball team, Kim has a full roster and will head straight to Moscow if she needs more players at any point

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026

That'll definitely work in quieting the story.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026

This whole interview is such an incredible series of self-owns.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth noting that Ravi Ruia, the Indian billionaire behind the Iowa steel plant Trump touted yesterday as bringing back American industry, has massive funding from Russian state companies. Here he is on the Kremlin website talking with Putin about it. en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59216

Ravi Ruia: Your Excellency, friends here. My name is Ravi Ruia, I am the co-founder of the Essar Group in India, along with my brother Shashi Ruia. Your Excellency, we are involved with Essar Group in different businesses. We are in the oil refining and exploration business, in spill manufacturing, power generation, port infrastructure, metals and mining. Our total revenues are around $15 billion a year. Your Excellency, in the last two years, with active cooperation and assistance of VTB Bank, we have been instrumental in bringing in a large investment from the state-owned oil company Rosneft into India, which has given access to Russia to a very large market in India of over 1.25 billion people. It is a total investment of almost $13 billion, which is the largest investment ever made by a Russian private company into the Indian private sector.
And it has given a big, major outlet for potentially Russian crude into India and access to over 4,000 to 5,000 filling gas stations in India where our product will be directly given to Indian consumers. Your Excellency, we are also looking at how else we can bring in more Russian investment into India, which would add to the growth of both Indian market and access to Indian population as well as add to Russian export. For instance, in the power generation sector, India genuinely believes that there is large potential for Russian power equipment to come into India as the Indian power generation is growing. This is the background of our group.
We are now looking at, Your Excellency. My question to you, Your Excellency, is the economic growth in India is at 1.5 percent. And now that the oil price has recovered, what measures do you envisage to take it to a sustainable high level of 3 percent? Thank you.

Andrei Kostin: Do you mean in Russia?
Ravi Ruia: Yes, in Russia.
Vladimir Putin: First of all, I would like to say that we have really good constructive relations with India, thanks also to our friendly personal ties with Prime Minister Modi, who is a serious politician and a really reliable partner.
It is largely thanks to his efforts that we are moving our relations forward in many fields. Yet we are not satisfied with the current state of our relations. It is beyond the capabilities of both India and Russia. We can increase the volume of our trade and economic ties and mutual
investments manifold, yes, many times over.
One of the investment projects you have mentioned is, indeed, the largest foreign investment in the history of the Indian economy - the acquisition by Rosneft, if l am not mistaken, of a stake worth $12 billion in one of India's largest oil refineries. I hope it is not the last investment of this kind.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ask the FBI

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. HAHAHAHAHAH. Eric Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of lying about going to an Atlanta Hawk's basketball game. Smith went to see the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Democrats don't have any income" is an insane statement, but it's also an admission that he sees the money collected by the United States government as his personal piggy bank, to be raided as he sees fit.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

OMG: Republican Senator Schmitt accused Jack Smith of being in ATL to conspire with Fani Willis b/c he got a text from JP Cooney about a “Hawks” game (Falcons?). Schmitt had a big visual aid but didn’t keep it up long. BUT smith was at an IOWA HAWKEYES game to see Caitlin Clark in Maryland HAHAHA

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t believe it got this far tbh. I think it’s a very bad bill and hope it fails the house

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wait 'til you hear what happened to her cousin.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene, but the jury convicted Carter, a Black man, based on the confession and two witnesses who said he bragged about killing Olesen, who was white. Those witnesses later recanted.”

apnews.com

Man ordered released on bail after decades on Utah’s death row after DNA tests show no match to him

A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man to be released on bail who spent decades on death row after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 28/09/2026

I hope Paxton repeats this answer as often as possible in front of microphones and cameras.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When you fool yourself into thinking that speaking directly to the people who are angry with your regime will calm things down bsky.app/profile/ship...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The constant administration propaganda on this would work if virtually every American couldn’t still tell there was a problem affecting them directly

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026

i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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